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Physical Review Letters – 16 April 2001
Volume 86, Issue 16

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Gathered here for your convenience are articles that have been highlighted in Physics, selected as an Editors' Suggestion, or are of special interest for other reasons.

Sequence Recognition in the Pairing of DNA Duplexes
A. A. Kornyshev and S. Leikin
pp. 3666-3669 [View PDF (143 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus

LETTERS

General Physics

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Metastable Helium
F. Pereira Dos Santos, J. Léonard, Junmin Wang, C. J. Barrelet, F. Perales, E. Rasel, C. S. Unnikrishnan, M. Leduc, and C. Cohen-Tannoudji
pp. 3459-3462 [View PDF (143 kB)]
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Steady-State Thermodynamics of Langevin Systems
Takahiro Hatano and Shin-ichi Sasa
pp. 3463-3466 [View PDF (77 kB)]

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Unitarity Bounds and the Cuspy Halo Problem
Lam Hui
pp. 3467-3470 [View PDF (88 kB)]
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End Point of the rp Process on Accreting Neutron Stars
H. Schatz, A. Aprahamian, V. Barnard, L. Bildsten, A. Cumming, M. Ouellette, T. Rauscher, F.-K. Thielemann, and M. Wiescher
pp. 3471-3474 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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Cosmology from MAXIMA-1, BOOMERANG, and COBE DMR Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
A. H. Jaffe et al.
pp. 3475-3479 [View PDF (179 kB)]

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Supersymmetry and the Anomalous Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
Jonathan L. Feng and Konstantin T. Matchev
pp. 3480-3483 [View PDF (692 kB)]
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Implications of Muon g-2 for Supersymmetry and for Discovering Superpartners Directly
Lisa L. Everett, Gordon L. Kane, Stefano Rigolin, and Lian-Tao Wang
pp. 3484-3487 [View PDF (87 kB)]
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Neutrino Unification
P. H. Chankowski, A. N. Ioannisian, S. Pokorski, and J. W. F. Valle
pp. 3488-3491 [View PDF (109 kB)]
Enforced Electrical Neutrality of the Color-Flavor Locked Phase
Krishna Rajagopal and Frank Wilczek
pp. 3492-3495 [View PDF (80 kB)]

Nuclear Physics

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Energy and Centrality Dependence of Rapidity Densities at RHIC Energies
Xin-Nian Wang and Miklos Gyulassy
pp. 3496-3499 [View PDF (151 kB)]
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Centrality Dependence of Charged Particle Multiplicity in Au-Au Collisions at √sNN = 130GeV
K. Adcox et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)
pp. 3500-3505 [View PDF (602 kB)]
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Self-Consistency Requirement in High-Energy Nuclear Scattering
M. Hladik, H. J. Drescher, S. Ostapchenko, T. Pierog, and K. Werner
pp. 3506-3509 [View PDF (165 kB)]
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Measurement of the ββ-Decay Rate of 100Mo to the First Excited 0+ State of 100Ru
L. De Braeckeleer, M. Hornish, A. Barabash, and V. Umatov
pp. 3510-3513 [View PDF (335 kB)]
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Universal Fluctuations in Heavy-Ion Collisions in the Fermi Energy Domain
R. Botet, M. Płoszajczak, A. Chbihi, B. Borderie, D. Durand, and J. Frankland
pp. 3514-3517 [View PDF (111 kB)]

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Random Scattering by Atomic Density Fluctuations in Optical Lattices
M. Blaauboer, G. Kurizki, and V. M. Akulin
pp. 3518-3521 [View PDF (131 kB)]
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Few Cycle Dynamics of Multiphoton Double Ionization
V. R. Bhardwaj, S. A. Aseyev, M. Mehendale, G. L. Yudin, D. M. Villeneuve, D. M. Rayner, M. Yu. Ivanov, and P. B. Corkum
pp. 3522-3525 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Observation of Accurate Ion Dissociation Thresholds in Pulsed Field Ionization-Photoelectron Studies
Karl-Michael Weitzel, G. K. Jarvis, Marcus Malow, Tomas Baer, Y. Song, and C. Y. Ng
pp. 3526-3529 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Kinetically Assisted Potential Sputtering of Insulators by Highly Charged Ions
G. Hayderer, S. Cernusca, M. Schmid, P. Varga, HP. Winter, F. Aumayr, D. Niemann, V. Hoffmann, N. Stolterfoht, C. Lemell, L. Wirtz, and J. Burgdörfer
pp. 3530-3533 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Generation of Photon Number States on Demand via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics
Simon Brattke, Benjamin T. H. Varcoe, and Herbert Walther
pp. 3534-3537 [View PDF (103 kB)]

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Chaotic Ionization of Nonhydrogenic Alkali Rydberg States
Andreas Krug and Andreas Buchleitner
pp. 3538-3541 [View PDF (79 kB)]
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Synchronization of Single-Side Locally Averaged Adaptive Coupling and Its Application to Shock Capturing
G. W. Wei
pp. 3542-3545 [View PDF (127 kB)]
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Superluminal to Subluminal Transition in the Pulse Propagation in a Resonantly Absorbing Medium
Md. Aminul Islam Talukder, Yoshimitsu Amagishi, and Makoto Tomita
pp. 3546-3549 [View PDF (94 kB)]
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Photoacoustic Point Source
Irio G. Calasso, Walter Craig, and Gerald J. Diebold
pp. 3550-3553 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Heat Conduction in a One-Dimensional Gas of Elastically Colliding Particles of Unequal Masses
Abhishek Dhar
pp. 3554-3557 [View PDF (114 kB)]
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Inhibition of the Finite-Time Singularity during Droplet Fission of a Polymeric Fluid
Y. Amarouchene, D. Bonn, J. Meunier, and H. Kellay
pp. 3558-3561 [View PDF (267 kB)]

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Three-Dimensional Simulations of Ion Acceleration from a Foil Irradiated by a Short-Pulse Laser
A. Pukhov
pp. 3562-3565 [View PDF (256 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Co Dimers Observed by Extended X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy
Giuseppe Faraci, Agata R. Pennisi, Antonella Balerna, Hugo Pattyn, Gerhard E. J. Koops, and Guilin Zhang
pp. 3566-3569 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Entropic Effects on the Size Dependence of Cluster Structure
Jonathan P. K. Doye and Florent Calvo
pp. 3570-3573 [View PDF (150 kB)]
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Atomic and Electronic Structures of N-Incorporated Si Oxides
Sukmin Jeong and Atsushi Oshiyama
pp. 3574-3577 [View PDF (419 kB)]
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Lattice Boltzmann Model for Anisotropic Liquid-Solid Phase Transition
W. Miller, S. Succi, and D. Mansutti
pp. 3578-3581 [View PDF (396 kB)]
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Exactly Solvable Toy Model that Mimics the Mode Coupling Theory of Supercooled Liquid and Glass Transition
Kyozi Kawasaki and Bongsoo Kim
pp. 3582-3585 [View PDF (113 kB)]
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Subsurface Dimerization in III-V Semiconductor (001) Surfaces
C. Kumpf, L. D. Marks, D. Ellis, D. Smilgies, E. Landemark, M. Nielsen, R. Feidenhans'l, J. Zegenhagen, O. Bunk, J. H. Zeysing, Y. Su, and R. L. Johnson
pp. 3586-3589 [View PDF (116 kB)]
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Decorated Ag19 on Pt(111) or the “Rare Gas Necklace”
R. Schaub, H. Jödicke, F. Brunet, R. Monot, J. Buttet, and W. Harbich
pp. 3590-3593 [View PDF (967 kB)]

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Reconciling Conductance Fluctuations and the Scaling Theory of Localization
Keith Slevin, Peter Markoš, and Tomi Ohtsuki
pp. 3594-3597 [View PDF (169 kB)]
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Effect of Anisotropic Strain on the Crosshatch Electrical Activity in Relaxed GeSi Films
M. H. Gray, J. W. P. Hsu, L. Giovane, and M. T. Bulsara
pp. 3598-3601 [View PDF (155 kB)]
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Polaron Dynamics in a System of Coupled Conjugated Polymer Chains
Åsa Johansson and Sven Stafström
pp. 3602-3605 [View PDF (93 kB)]
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Current-Induced Embrittlement of Atomic Wires
T. N. Todorov, J. Hoekstra, and A. P. Sutton
pp. 3606-3609 [View PDF (123 kB)]
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Mesoscopic Fluctuations of the Coulomb Drag at ν = 1/2
B. N. Narozhny, I. L. Aleiner, and Ady Stern
pp. 3610-3613 [View PDF (99 kB)]
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New Class of Magnetoresistance Oscillations: Interaction of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Leaky Interface Phonons
M. A. Zudov, I. V. Ponomarev, A. L. Efros, R. R. Du, J. A. Simmons, and J. L. Reno
pp. 3614-3617 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Precision Calculation of Magnetization and Specific Heat of Vortex Liquids and Solids in Type-II Superconductors
Dingping Li and Baruch Rosenstein
pp. 3618-3621 [View PDF (125 kB)]
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Flux Front Penetration in Disordered Superconductors
Stefano Zapperi, André A. Moreira, and José S. Andrade, Jr.
pp. 3622-3625 [View PDF (118 kB)]
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New Vortex-Matter Size Effect Observed in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Y. M. Wang, M. S. Fuhrer, A. Zettl, S. Ooi, and T. Tamegai
pp. 3626-3629 [View PDF (394 kB)]
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Collective Pinning of a Frozen Vortex Liquid in Ultrathin Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 Films
M. Calame, S. E. Korshunov, Ch. Leemann, and P. Martinoli
pp. 3630-3633 [View PDF (271 kB)]
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Non-Stoner Continuum in the Double Exchange Model
T. A. Kaplan, S. D. Mahanti, and Y.-S. Su
pp. 3634-3637 [View PDF (133 kB)]
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Orbital Frustration at the Origin of the Magnetic Behavior in LiNiO2
F. Reynaud, D. Mertz, F. Celestini, J.-M. Debierre, A. M. Ghorayeb, P. Simon, A. Stepanov, J. Voiron, and C. Delmas
pp. 3638-3641 [View PDF (170 kB)]
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Phase Transitions, Stability, and Dielectric Response of the Domain Structure in Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Thin Films
A. M. Bratkovsky and A. P. Levanyuk
pp. 3642-3645 [View PDF (97 kB)]
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Element-Selective Nanosecond Magnetization Dynamics in Magnetic Heterostructures
M. Bonfim, G. Ghiringhelli, F. Montaigne, S. Pizzini, N. B. Brookes, F. Petroff, J. Vogel, J. Camarero, and A. Fontaine
pp. 3646-3649 [View PDF (265 kB)]
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Ultrafast Laser-Induced Phase Transitions in Amorphous GeSb Films
J. P. Callan, A. M.-T. Kim, C. A. D. Roeser, E. Mazur, J. Solis, J. Siegel, C. N. Afonso, and J. C. G. de Sande
pp. 3650-3653 [View PDF (112 kB)]
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Spin Polarized Metastable He*(23S,1s2s) Stimulated Desorption of H+ Ions
T. Suzuki, M. Kurahashi, Y. Yamauchi, T. Ishikawa, and T. Noro
pp. 3654-3657 [View PDF (95 kB)]

Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.

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Bound Entangled Gaussian States
R. F. Werner and M. M. Wolf
pp. 3658-3661 [View PDF (85 kB)]
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Correlation Detection and Resonance in Neural Systems with Distributed Noise Sources
Michael Rudolph and Alain Destexhe
pp. 3662-3665 [View PDF (285 kB)]
Sequence Recognition in the Pairing of DNA Duplexes
A. A. Kornyshev and S. Leikin
pp. 3666-3669 [View PDF (143 kB)]
See accompanying Physics Focus
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Metallic Conduction through Engineered DNA: DNA Nanoelectronic Building Blocks
A. Rakitin, P. Aich, C. Papadopoulos, Yu. Kobzar, A. S. Vedeneev, J. S. Lee, and J. M. Xu
pp. 3670-3673 [View PDF (174 kB)]
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Optimal Wiring Principle and Plateaus in the Degree of Separation for Cortical Neurons
Jan Karbowski
pp. 3674-3677 [View PDF (86 kB)]
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Defibrillation via the Elimination of Spiral Turbulence in a Model for Ventricular Fibrillation
Sitabhra Sinha, Ashwin Pande, and Rahul Pandit
pp. 3678-3681 [View PDF (256 kB)]
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Breakdown of the Internet under Intentional Attack
Reuven Cohen, Keren Erez, Daniel ben-Avraham, and Shlomo Havlin
pp. 3682-3685 [View PDF (90 kB)]

COMMENTS

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Comment on “First Observation of Ion Acoustic Waves Produced by the Langmuir Decay Instability”
D. S. Montgomery
pp. 3686 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Pesme et al. Reply:
D. Pesme, S. Hüller, G. Laval, S. Depierreux, J. Fuchs, C. Labaune, A. Michard, and H. Baldis
pp. 3687 [View PDF (35 kB)]
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Comment on “Antilocalization in a 2D Electron Gas in a Random Magnetic Field”
Alexander D. Mirlin and Peter Wölfle
pp. 3688 [View PDF (45 kB)]
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Taras-Semchuk and Efetov Reply:
D. Taras-Semchuk and K. B. Efetov
pp. 3689 [View PDF (34 kB)]
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Does the 2D Hubbard Model Really Show d-Wave Superconductivity?
Gang Su
pp. 3690 [View PDF (39 kB)]
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Maier, Jarrell, and Pruschke Reply:
Th. Maier, M. Jarrell, and Th. Pruschke
pp. 3691 [View PDF (38 kB)]
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Comment on “Atomic Many-Body Effects for the p-Shell Photoelectron Spectra of Transition Metals”
M. Taguchi, T. Uozumi, K. Okada, H. Ogasawara, and A. Kotani
pp. 3692 [View PDF (120 kB)]
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Bagus et al. Reply:
Paul S. Bagus, R. Broer, W. A. de Jong, W. C. Nieuwpoort, F. Parmigiani, and L. Sangaletti
pp. 3693 [View PDF (35 kB)]

ERRATA

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Erratum: Effects of Dephasing and Dissipation on Quantum Noise in Conductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1403 (1992)]
Akira Shimizu and Masahito Ueda
pp. 3694 [View PDF (24 kB)]
 
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